This paper explores the different incubation strategies for spinning-out companies employed
by European Research Institutions. More specifically, we focus on two central questions:(i) …

This survey links the prevalent theory from the entrepreneurship literature concerning
opportunity recognition and exploitation to economic theory, in particular the model of the …

This study examines the relationship between the ownership and control structures of a
company and its innovative activity. It seeks to analyse the effect of the internal features of a …

The paper assesses the empirical foundation of two largely held assumptions in science
policy making, namely scale and agglomeration effects. According to the former effect …

As the economies of the industrial countries rapidly become more knowledge-based,
universities are seen as holding the key to regional economic development and cluster …

Del Barrio-Castro T. and García-Quevedo J.(2005) Effects of university research on the
geography of innovation, Regional Studies 39, 1217–1229. Applied studies on the …

This paper studies the innovative performance of 130 Swedish corporations during 1993–
1994. The number of patents per corporation is explained as a function of the accessibility to …

This paper discusses the determinants of three alternative measures of innovative output by
looking at firm's own formal R&D activities and at the acquisition of external technology (TA) …

The purpose of this paper is to synthesize the literature to guide an incipient research
focusing on the links between innovation, universities, regions, individual entrepreneurs and …

The aim of this paper is twofold: first, to explore the effects of industrial cluster on innovation
capacity, and second, to study the impact of external resources on firms' innovation capacity …